The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1887-09-22
NEWS IN GENERAL.
DOMESTIC.

Secretary Bayard says there Is no ground
upon which to ask for the extradition OF Nc
Garigle.
Coal arbitration worked satisfactorily at
Pottsville, Pa, and about $4,000 men were
prevented from striking
A negro cook named Joe Dixon, employed
at the Hotel Beaumont, Outray, COL, had
fancied grievance against Miss Alice Gray,
waitress, and shot her four times, mob
captured the guard, but failed to gain an en-
trance. They then saturated the building
with oil, and set fire to it, The fire depart
ment, in the attempt to extinguish the flames,
drowned the negro, whose body was roasted
in the burning building, The wounded girl
is not expected to recover
The Volunteer won the trial race with the
Mayhower, and has been selected to defend
the Americas cup by the New York Yacht
Club committee.
L. B. Coolidge, a Calvert county (Md.) far
mer, walked into his wife's bedroom, the other
evening, where his wife and her sister were
reading. He had gun in his hand and told
his wife that he was going to shoot her. She
sprang to her feet and took the gun from him,
aud her sister, Miss Turner, ran out of the
room for help Before she had got to the
front door she heard two shots. Coolidge
had drawn his revolver and shot his wife
through the breast, causing instant DEATH
To make sure of his work, he opened razor,
and cut her throat. He then started down
stairs to find Miss Turner. Not finding her,
he went into his children's room and asked
them to come to their mothers room and see
him die. The children were afraid to CO. and
Coolidge returned alone and cut his throat,
falling dead by his wifes side
reprinted forms of the petition to Gov.
Oglesby, appealing for a Communication Of
sentence for the condemned Anarchists, have
been gotten out, and are now being forward
ed to all parts of the country. The petition
was drawn up by Capt. Black. 1t reads as
follows:
ITO His Excellency, Richard J. oglesby,
Governor of the State of Illinois: The un-
dersigned, believing that in any case involv-
ing life, humanity and the state are better
served by mercy than by the rigorous execu-
! ton of a sentence the justice of which is
questioned by many of our people, respect
fully, but urgently, bespeak the exercise of
the executive noh ssmenSy Of your n ss-
Michael Schawb, Oscar Neebe, Albert
r. Parsons, Samuel Fielden, Adolph Fischer,
Louis Lingg and George Engel, being per.
suaded that such action on your part will
conduce to the peace of the state"
While workmen were repairing the Balti-
more g. Ohio railroad bridge spanning the
Ohio river at Belaire, o., an engine backed
upon them, knocking EDWARD Jury, tne
foreman, to the ground, a distance of 40 feet,
instantly killing him, and running over Pat
rick Barrett and j. Harding, horribly mang-
ling both. Barrett died shortly after. Hard
ing cannot recover. Duffy and Barrett were
married, and leave families. The engineer
claims he did not see the men on account OF
the engine being run backward.
One of the bloodiest murders on record has
lately transpired in Patual county, Ga.
Mingo Parks, jet-black African objected
| TO the attention of mulatto young man to-
wards his daughter. The girl, however, had
i frequent meetings with her lover and en-
couraged his passion. The mulatto was lately
missed Search was made and his body
found at the bottom of the Ohoopie river,
weighted with heavy bar of iron. Parks
has admitted the deed, declaring that sit
served him right
Henry Riedel murdered his wife and child
at Wilmington, DEL, and att mpted to kill
himself.
The reception of General Manager Flagler
of the National Tube Works Company OF
McKeesport, Pa, by the employees, on his ra.
turn from Europe, was grand affair;